Isn’t Omicron supposed to be milder? Why are the schools closed?

HONG KONG—Within hours of the city’s top official saying late Tuesday that schools would be closed and turned into response centers to tackle a surge in the Covid-19 Omicron variant, a rush occurred among foreign residents to find a way out of the city.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s decision to shift the summer holidays forward several months to start in March—repurposing schools as testing, vaccination and isolation centers—caught educators and parents off guard.

Some foreign workers immediately tried to book their families on flights out of the city as soon as possible. They took to WhatsApp messaging groups and other social-media platforms to discuss how to get out, with hundreds of posts inquiring about flight options and chartering planes amid sharply reduced commercial schedules in and out of the city.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-sets-all-schools-for-covid-19-response-centers-11645530595

Puppy comms/Durham

https://abc11.com/puppy-found-animal-protection-society-of-durham-aps-lazuli/11590923/

Conservative media joined a certain former president last week whipping up the political right over what they claimed was a smoking gun: proof from an ongoing investigation by special counsel John Durham that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats “spied” on Donald Trump while he was president. Trump called it worse than Watergate! He suggested someone should be executed.

Small problem: The filings by Durham that sparked it all don’t say what Fox News and others claim they do — which Durham himself has now clarified. Since our colleagues on the right are unlikely to correct the record for their readers and viewers, we will.

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/editorial-even-durham-says-some-media-have-gone-down-the-rabbit-hole-regarding-his-probe/article_6556a524-36d4-56fd-a475-961e048359b8.html